This is how you lose her part 1

             I think that Yunior cheats on all of his girlfriends because he is the type of person who does things that’ll make him happy in the moment. When he sees a pretty girl his first thought is that he wants to have sex with her, not that he’s hurting his girlfriend by cheating. It can be that his problems with infidelity stems from his brother or maybe his dad (whom we didn’t meet in the book yet). As a character you can tell that he’s not someone who thinks in the long run about his decisions.

 I can’t justify Yunior’s behavior towards women. Yes, maybe he did have a troubled childhood which may have caused this. However, if you want to be in a relationship you need to be mature enough to be able to control yourself and keep your sexual activities solely with your girlfriend. He may be completely happy with his relationship, and he may feel bad that he cheated, but that doesn’t count. Cheating once can be a little more understandable if the cheater realized their mistake, genuinely felt bad, and never did it again. However, Yunior continuously repeats his behaviors even though he is aware that it pretty much ruins any relationship he’s ever in. It’s funny to me how he justifies his cheating by saying that he never actually cared about or had an emotional connection with the girls he sleeps with, “Sure, I checked out other females, even danced with them when I went out, but I wasn’t keeping numbers or nothing.”(pg.19)

Like Water for Chocolate Ending

No joke, I thought long and hard to come up with the answer to who I thought the better partner for Tita would be.  I feel like Dr. Brown was probably the better pick for Tita. Dr. Brown actually seeks to build a relationship with Tita based on love and mutual understanding. On the other hand, Pedro only has feelings of lust and sexual attraction towards Tita. I feel like she can have a more stable relationship with Dr. Brown but Pedro will just be toxic 💀 Even when Tita’s mother died (she was the only obstacle between Pedro and Tita) the first thing he wanted to do was have sex with her. He’s a player and I don’t like him. “with everything he said and did, not once considering her feelings. It was definitely true, Pedro had turned into a monster of selfishness and suspicion” (Esquivel, 98) 

Even though Pedro and Tita died in the end, I feel like that was just the beginning of their relationship together. Except this time, they won’t have outside factors holding their love lust back. Esquivel had to kill them off, if she made them live happily ever after it would be too predictable and corny. If she ended up choosing John, readers would probably think that she’s too weak of a character.

Towards the end of the book, I started to feel empathy towards Mama Elena. Yeah I hated her at first because she was way too abusive towards Tita, but then we see a whole different side to her that kind of humanizes her. She went through forbidden love, which lets us as readers see why she might’ve been so strict with her kids. She tried to protect them from heartbreak, although she sucked at that. 

Like Water for Chocolate Jan-Jun

Although I think Tita was placed in the novel to be its heroine, Nancha has easily become my favorite character. I’m impressed with the fact that even though she’s an older lady, she doesn’t seem to agree with all of the strict traditions that is forced on women in the Mexican culture. Even when Titas’s love of her life was going to marry her sister, no one but Nancha actually felt bad for her or comforted her.  “Now were alone in the kitchen, so go ahead and cry, my child, because I don’t want them to see you crying tomorrow. Especially not Rosaura.” (Esquivel,10) So sad she died so early in the book ;(

At first, I was a little taken aback of Esquival’s magic realism especially when all the wedding guests started throwing up and getting sick from the tears in the cake that Tita baked, it seemed a little too dramatic and I’m usually not a fan of texts that aren’t realistic. However, I loved the scene when Tita prepared a dish with quail in rose sauce. I interpreted the roses being a representation of passion and lust because after eating it, Gertrudis blissfully ran off with Juan whilst being naked. From my take on the type of person Gertrudis was, I was pretty shocked that she never stood up to Mama Elena for Tita. Gertrudis really seemed like a woman ahead of her time; she pushed for what she wanted and didn’t really care about what society had to say about it.